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quinta-feira, 7 de novembro de 2013

Anna Karenina

by Leo Tolstoy

Book Review by Esther Lombardi, About.com

Anna
Karenina is one of
Leo Tolstoy's greatest literary works. It's the tale of Anna Karenina and her
ultimately tragic love affair with Count Vronsky. This audio production offers
Neville Jason's abridged version of Tolstoy's masterpiece.

What's in the Story

The story for Anna Karenina
apparently came out of an episode in which Leo Tolstoy arrived at a railway
station shortly after a young woman had committed suicide. She had been the
mistress of a neighboring landowner, and the incident stuck in his mind...

As Tolstoy biographer Henri Troyat
writes, "A dreadful lesson was brought home to him... He tried to imagine
the existence of this poor woman who had given all for love, only to meet with
such a trite, ugly death." Then, Troyat says, "Her image haunted him
for a long time, but not specifically as material for a book."

When Tolstoy finally started the story
of Anna Karenina, his wife reported in a letter to her sister,
"Yesterday Leo suddenly started to write a novel on contemporary life. The
subject is the unfaithful wife and all the ensuing tragedy."

So, Tolstoy creates the character of
Anna Karenina, a young woman who finds herself in a loveless marriage with
Karenin. It might not have seemed so intolerable if she had not met and fallen
in love with Count Vronsky.

As a comparison to Anna's tragic
affair, we hear about the relationship between Kitty and Levin, a conjugal love
match. Levin is first rejected by Kitty, since she has her heart set on Count
Vronsky. Since Vronsky's affections are already taken by Anna Karenina, Kitty's
heart is broken and she eventually turns back to Levin for love and marriage.

In the character of Anna, Tolstoy
creates a woman who is perhaps most unhappily destined for tragedy. Anna falls
in love with Count Vronsky, only to find that her passions are uncontrollable.
She might have continued the relationship in secret, but she defies the "rules,"
and is forced to pay the ultimate price... She loses all contact with her son;
and she is shunned from proper society.

In the "Notes," Neville
Jason writes, "Thus the forces of society gradually bear down upon Anna
with the same insensibility and inexorable momentum as the iron monster, which
finally crushes the life out of her body on the railway line."

A fly by imagination

And life passes so quickly...

Because literature is part of our history.

The main idea of this Blog is spread the habit of reading. Literature is part of our lives. When enter in the Literature world, we read better and we improve our though and imagination.I want, with this, divide a little of my dreams. Is to give opportunity to people read and know about works produced by ancient and contemporary writers, and mainly, myself to be insert in this wonderful world of the Letters.